and go on to live in another form with self-awareness & experience suffering or joy.
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It remains possible but no reason to think so & much reason to think 'self' is brain & dies w/ brain
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James Lindsay's Life in Light of Death looks at transcendence narratives & instinct to deny that we're mammals
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Humans. Warm-blooded vertebrates that have live young & produce milk.
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Explain HOW there is an “instinct” to deny “we are warm-blooded, vertebrates that produce live young."
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Replying to @EveKeneinan @DoneReasoning
That's what a mammal is. Ppl tend to deny being animals in their language & customs tho they are mammals.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
What people? Names, please. In the Western tradition man has since Aristotle been DEFINED as “rational animal.”
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Behaving like animals which differentiates humans from them - https://twitter.com/search?q=Behaving%20like%20animals&src=typd …
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Bestial = bad. Great chain of being - humans between animals & angels. Carnality = bad. This sort of thing.
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